Adversarial Attacks on SMS Spam Detectors

Exploring how adversarial learning can be used to target SMS spam detectors using Jacobian-based Saliency Map attacks

Note: The methodology behind the approach discussed in this post stems from a collaborative publication between myself and Irene Anthi.

INTRODUCTION

Spam SMS text messages often show up unexpectedly on our phone screens. That’s aggravating enough, but it gets worse. Whoever is sending you a spam text message…